A new scheme for packet coding in wireless sensor networks

Author

AboElFotoh, Hosam M F ; Almunayyes, Ahmad S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Kuwait Univ., Safat, Kuwait

fYear

2010

fDate

11-12 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We propose a new method for encoding information in wireless sensor networks. In addition to forwarding packets, routing nodes mix (i.e. code) packets from different sources to increase the information content for each transmission to neighbor nodes. We investigate the improvement in network throughput/lifetime via simulation programs. We implement the new method on different wireless sensor network topologies and show that coding and multicasting packets increase the network throughput and lifetime based on a prior knowledge of the local network topology. We report the method and its implementation. Simulation results for different topologies are included.

Keywords

network coding; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; forwarding packets; packet coding; packet multicasting; routing nodes; simulation programs; wireless sensor network topology; Encoding; Network coding; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Topology; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Growth Codes; Networks; Networks Coding; Packet Coding; wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6233-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556789

Filename

5556789